Re: [Firebird-docs] tools.jar and JAVA_HOME in build scripts

[Paul V. <pa...@vi...>]

Hi all,

> About JAVA_HOME:
>
> - In build.bat JAVA_HOME is used twice, both times in the same line:
>   first to call Java ("%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe"), and a little later
>   to add %JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar to the classpath.
>
> - In build.sh it is only used once, to add $JAVA_HOME/lib/tools.jar to
>   the classpath. The executable is simply called as "java".
>
> We seem to assume that the Java 2 executable will be in the search path
> on Linux systems, but not on Windows systems. Is there a good reason
> for this? To me, it would seem more logical to either call java like
> "java" on boths OS'es, or to specify the path on both OS'es.

Well, I just did a fresh checkout on a recently installed SuSE 8.2, and
when I wanted to build the docs java was not found. It turns out that
normal users don't have the java bindir in their path by default.

So I think we ought to keep JAVA_HOME in the scripts after all, and
change build.sh so that it calls $JAVA_HOME/bin/java instead of just
"java".


Greetings,
Paul Vinkenoog